Favourite podcast episodes:

Current podcast listening statistics

I listen to podcasts usually twice for 30 minutes commuting to work plus when travelling (way to airport, in plane or train) when I am not reading and when I do stuff like preparing washing machines. This results in the following statistics:

Favourite Podcasts in Economics, History and General

BBC4: In our times podcast - Favourite Episode: P v NP. Extremely fascinating episode. Most of the podcasts are on niche topics but from any area: history, physics, politics, math. Beautiful BBC English.

Econtalk - On of the podcasts I have listened to for the longest time. Most non fiction authors of the type of Books that would be featured in the FT/McKinsey Non Fiction Book of the Year section come through here. Good start before reading the book. Brand name economists like Reinhart (from Reinhart and Rogoff) will show up here as do people like Acemoglu (Why Nations Fail).

Favourite episode: An excellent episode and a very memorable one is Adamati (Bankers' new Clothes) on the cost of equity and how to prevent housing crises. Very understandable for somebody who is not familiar with debt and equity concepts. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/04/admati_on_bank.html

Stuff you should knowNo favourite episode. Kind of an an american version of in our times - go through the topics and pick one that is interesting.

Internet history podcast - If interested in technology or particular companies or technologies from the beginning of the 90ies onwards, this is an extremely interesting podcast. Interesting are the Episodes on Tesla’s founding.

Lovett or Leave it - Entertaining American politics. Sometimes very specific US politics issues. Former speech writer of Obama and Comedian.

This week in startups - An extremely good podcasts on start ups by Jason Calacanis. The episodes with Chris Sacca, who wanted to be a Spy but then become a venture capitalist are extremely good. As is a more current episode on clean fish.

There are of course a number of other great podcasts, for example from Deutschlandfunk (German Public Radio), Dittsche (the Hamburg Comedian) and stuff by established media like the economist or the FT that is worth listening to. Not going into detail here because those are somewhat obvious.